Where next for Twitter?

The problem Twitter has is that its value lies in the people who use it, rather than the content its users generate (It's fight or flight for Twitter, 30 May). Twitter is currently popular because important people (eg celebrities, politicians, journalists) use it. When the important people stop using it, its value to the unimportant people who make up the vast majority of its users will plummet.

Sam Fisher online

• It is so easy just to go somewhere (eg Tweetdeck) to avoid adverts. Maybe they should have some sort of "advert tweet" that occasionally pops up in your news feed. Whatever they do is going to alienate and annoy people though.

Henrybenryo online

• I suspect that Twitter's recent purchase of Tweetdeck, and its clampdown on third-party apps, is likely to be the precursor to more in-your-face advertising on the site itself. In terms of design, there's plenty of space on the page to show ads to Twitter users, the risk until now has been that people who dislike them will simply go elsewhere – either to non-web interfaces such as Tweetdeck or other web-based third party interfaces. Once Twitter can find a way of ensuring that it's impossible (or, at least, really difficult) to avoid the ads then that's when they will start appearing more intrusively.

• Could [the British Library] go down the same route as the National Library of Australia's newspaper digitisation? Their users can help improve the [optical character recognition] by correcting the text against the original image, making it more accurate and better for everyone.